Directed by Louis Heaton.
With Bob Benecke, Maria Palacios de Erickson, Chazz Palminteri, John Carpenter.
The making of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ (1960) July 17, 2016 Alan Royle Movies 6 The Mirisch brothers, Walter, Marvin and Harold, produced a number of highly profitable movies in the fifties and sixties – Some Like it Hot (1959), West Side Story (1961), The Pink Panther (1963) and In the Heat of the Night (1967) were among them. The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself. Directed by John Sturges.
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits. The Making of the Magnificent Seven: Behind the Scenes of the Pivotal Western ... than you ever wanted to know about such arcane matters as the Mirsch production company’s release schedules and the 1960 box office grosses in Pittsburgh. With Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach.
It had everything - an actors' strike, a writers' strike, interference by the Mexican government and a row between the screenwriters that resulted in one removing his name from the credits, all under … The behind-the-scenes story of the making of the classic Western.
This book is exhaustively researched, which can at times leave the reader...well, exhausted.
With Bob Benecke, Maria Palacios de Erickson, Chazz Palminteri, John Carpenter.
The making of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ (1960) July 17, 2016 Alan Royle Movies 6 The Mirisch brothers, Walter, Marvin and Harold, produced a number of highly profitable movies in the fifties and sixties – Some Like it Hot (1959), West Side Story (1961), The Pink Panther (1963) and In the Heat of the Night (1967) were among them. The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself. Directed by John Sturges.
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits. The Making of the Magnificent Seven: Behind the Scenes of the Pivotal Western ... than you ever wanted to know about such arcane matters as the Mirsch production company’s release schedules and the 1960 box office grosses in Pittsburgh. With Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach.
It had everything - an actors' strike, a writers' strike, interference by the Mexican government and a row between the screenwriters that resulted in one removing his name from the credits, all under … The behind-the-scenes story of the making of the classic Western.
This book is exhaustively researched, which can at times leave the reader...well, exhausted.